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Business intelligence software is a critical tool for any business looking to harness their data and more accurately detect and evaluate structural patterns, anticipate trends and achieve increased operational visibility. Browse the best business intelligence software with Business-Software.com’s free comparison report of the Top 10 Business Intelligence solutions. The benefits of business intelligence gathering can be realized most fully by large enterprises, but even smaller businesses can benefit from the insights brought by business intelligence systems. Among the top-rated BI software products are:- SAP BusinessObjects
- Domo Business Intelligence
- Oracle BI Foundation Suite
- Birst
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BI Software Vendors
BI Software Vendors Articles
SAP BusinessObjects vs. Oracle Business Intelligence
By James Sullivan
With these SAP and Oracle so clearly dominating the BI segment, a logical question—and one that we’ve seen before in the Business-Software.com Community—is how do SAP BusinessObjects and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition compare?
Top BI Solutions for Small Business
By James Sullivan
For a while, business intelligence software was too expensive and too complex to meet the needs of small businesses. Today, thanks in part to cost savings afforded by the cloud, there are a host of BI solutions available to help small businesses visualize, analyze, and report on their complex data.
4 BI Vendors Using Impala to Supercharge Hadoop
By Mark Aspillera
As a distributed file system for organizing and analyzing big data (think pedabytes), Hadoop has a lot of things going for it: affordability, scalability and flexibility to name a few, yet it's far from perfect.
Let's Talk AppBuddy: Behind the Software with CEO Marc Aubin
By Kiri Picone
I first met Marc Aubin, CEO and co-founder of AppBuddy, at Dreamforce 2013, where I was struck by his authentic desire to make customers happy. Here, we discuss how AppBuddy's flagship product, GridBuddy, helps Salesforce users better manage and act on data.
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Big Data Software
Big Data Software Articles
Top 10 Most Effective Ways to Visualize Your Business Data
By Taylor Tomita
Due to the amount of data businesses need to parse through and act on every day, the data visualization market is growing at unprecedented rates. And businesses of all sizes from all sorts of industries are acquiring data visualization softwarein droves (International Data Corporation). Unfortunately, simply acquiring and implementing a ... (more)
Close More Deals with Data Visualization Software
By Kiri Picone
Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, data visualization solutions will change the way you see data---literally. We uncover the top benefits you could receive, and offer four practical applications for using data visualization software.
Behind the Software Q&A with Apptegic CEO Karl Wirth
By Mark Aspillera
During our Q&A with Apptegic, we spoke with CEO Karl Wirth about how he and co-founder and CTO Greg Hinkle are converting raw data into actionable intelligence.
Let's Talk Continuuity: Behind the Software Q&A with CEO Jonathan Gray
By Kristin Crosier
We spoke with Continuuity CEO Jonathan Gray about how in its short period of existence the company has drastically altered the Big Data industry, constructing a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Hadoop framework designed by developers, for developers.
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Business Process Management
Business Process Management Articles
Business Process Management 101
By Darlene Lin
BPM can be thought of as being related to business intelligence and operational intelligence solutions. With this actionable information in hand, key stakeholders within an organization can understand the relationship between processes and model them out, gaining visibility into key areas and finding opportunities for improvement.
Top Features of Intelligent Business Process Management
By Robert Cecchi
Taking the time to understand how and why we get where we’re going can often be more important to our overall development than focusing solely on the end goal. It’s about the journey, not the destination. For businesses, it’s similarly important to pay close attention to the processes that lead to your success, and the pathways your customers take to facilitate that success.
BonitaSoft and the Democratization of Open Source Business Process Management
By Mark Aspillera
Business Process Management (BPM) software has typically been seen as the domain of huge developers like IBM and Oracle and the huge enterprises who can afford their solutions. BonitaSoft contends, however, that the benefits of BPM can extend to small and medium-size businesses too, and they know how to do it. We spoke to BonitaSoft vice president of marketing Mac McConnell to find out more about how open source--and a highly competitive price point--are helping in its goal of democratizing BPM.
4 Tried and True Business Trends for 2019
By Kevin G.
2019 is the crowning year of the 2010s business world. As innovations continue to flood the market—from marketing to product technological advances—the 21st century offers the business world more opportunity than ever before. This opportunity can be found through the creation of trends—both by entrepreneurs and the consumers themselves. The ... (more)
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Trends in BI Software
Trends in BI Software Articles
How In-Memory Data Grids Differ from Spark and Storm
By William Bain
We provide a deeper understanding of in-memory data grids (IMDG) and how they differ from popular open source solutions like Spark and Storm.
You Should Know Why Alphabet Acquired These 3 Companies
By Austin L.
Companies acquiring other companies is a large component of capitalism and is necessary when trying to maintain a competitive environment. One such business that has gained fame through just buying other businesses is Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Company buyouts are becoming more and more common and most people other than investors, don’t pay attention. However, a company as large and impactful as Alphabet, everyone should be watching their every move. Recently, the tech giant acquired three companies: Webpass, Moodstocks and Anvato and people should know what’s going on.
Close More Deals with Data Visualization Software
By Kiri Picone
Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, data visualization solutions will change the way you see data---literally. We uncover the top benefits you could receive, and offer four practical applications for using data visualization software.
The Cortana Analytics Suite and the Future of BI Software
By Kristin Crosier
Microsoft’s new Cortana Analytics Suite joins together -- and attempts to streamline -- many formerly disparate data processes: data storage, machine learning, big data analytics, information management and business intelligence. Let's take a look which existing Microsoft services will play a part in the new analytics suite, what functionality each brings to the table, and what this means for the future of BI software.
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Popular Business Intelligence Solutions
Salesforce Analytics Cloud
The Salesforce Analytics Cloud is a business intelligence and analytics software platform that allows business users and teams to easily filter, measure, group and share datasets. Self-service capabilities enable users to instantly access data and customize dashboards without assistance from IT or analysts.
Birst
Birst Networked approach to BI and Analytics enables a single view of data, eliminating data silos. Decentralized teams and individual users can augment the corporate data model with their own local data, without compromising data governance. Consistency comes from a unified semantic layer, which maintains common definitions and key metrics, no matter where users sit.
Domo Business Intelligence
Domo is a cloud-based executive management platform that is redefining the business intelligence market and transforming the way business is managed.
Sisense
Sisense offers any sized business the chance to generate high-quality business intelligence without hardware-intensive applications, IT specialists, prior programming knowledge or prior BI experience.
Tableau Server
Tableau Server is business performance management software that provides users with interactive system insights without the limits that come with pre-defined questions, wizards or established chart types. The platform connects to any data source, allows users to publish and share data sources in order to enable team-wide access, and works with multiple third-party enterprise data sources including Cloudera Hadoop, Oracle, and AWS Redshift.
QlikView
QlikView Business Discovery platform does away with expensive and outdated business intelligence systems that constrain the end user’s analytic creativity. Instead, this top business intelligence tool leverages the power of patented, in-memory cloud technology to aggregate, organize and present data to employees throughout the organizational hierarchy.